.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 221 153
Rank change year-on-year -113 -68 -35
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 312 731 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 1.22% 2.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.89% 5.98% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 286 509 925
10th Percentile £41,375 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £82,313 £71,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £108,750 £87,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,383 12,219 12,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.95% 20.36% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,730 7,292 10,357
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +2.27%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 18 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -1 134 £80,000 +12.28% 141
North of England -39 70 £55,000 - 107
North West -1 44 £55,000 -4.35% 66
South East -69 42 £55,000 - 96
South West +22 27 £50,000 -20.00% 27
Midlands -37 21 £65,000 +43.65% 58
Yorkshire -32 20 £40,000 -20.00% 32
East of England -16 13 £60,000 +20.00% 33
West Midlands +11 11 £60,000 +33.33% 24
East Midlands -26 10 £67,500 +42.11% 33
North East -9 6 £70,000 +60.00% 9
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 15 (4.81%) IIS
2 10 (3.21%) CMS
3 7 (2.24%) Confluence
3 7 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.60%) Umbraco
5 4 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (0.96%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.32%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.32%) Magento
1 1 (0.32%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 216 (69.23%) Azure
2 94 (30.13%) AWS
3 47 (15.06%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (11.54%) Serverless
5 33 (10.58%) GitHub
6 21 (6.73%) Azure Functions
7 20 (6.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 20 (6.41%) Power Platform
8 17 (5.45%) SaaS
9 15 (4.81%) GCP
10 13 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 12 (3.85%) Power Automate
12 11 (3.53%) Azure App Service
13 10 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (3.21%) Azure AKS
14 9 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (2.56%) PowerApps
16 6 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (1.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.92%) Internet
2 2 (0.64%) HTTP
2 2 (0.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (35.58%) SQL Server
2 57 (18.27%) MongoDB
3 50 (16.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (8.97%) NoSQL
5 26 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
6 17 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (4.17%) MySQL
7 13 (4.17%) Relational Database
8 11 (3.53%) Power BI
9 10 (3.21%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.88%) Redis
11 8 (2.56%) NonStop SQL
12 7 (2.24%) Data Hub
12 7 (2.24%) SQL CLR
12 7 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (1.28%) MariaDB
15 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
15 1 (0.32%) Event Store
15 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 55 (17.63%) Git
2 18 (5.77%) JIRA
3 12 (3.85%) Visual Studio
4 10 (3.21%) Octopus Deploy
5 9 (2.88%) GitLab
6 8 (2.56%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.60%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.60%) NUnit
8 5 (1.60%) Postman
9 4 (1.28%) Jenkins
9 4 (1.28%) MSTest
9 4 (1.28%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.28%) Vite
10 3 (0.96%) JMeter
10 3 (0.96%) Selenium
11 2 (0.64%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.32%) CA Release Automation
12 1 (0.32%) Sourcetree
General
1 50 (16.03%) Finance
2 47 (15.06%) Social Skills
3 17 (5.45%) Law
3 17 (5.45%) Retail
4 14 (4.49%) Back Office
5 13 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.53%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.21%) Advertising
7 10 (3.21%) Legal
8 7 (2.24%) Banking
8 7 (2.24%) Front Office
9 5 (1.60%) Automotive
10 4 (1.28%) Marketing
11 3 (0.96%) Games
11 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.64%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.32%) Electronics
13 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 220 (70.51%) Developer
2 119 (38.14%) .NET Developer
3 58 (18.59%) Senior
4 46 (14.74%) Software Developer
5 45 (14.42%) C# Developer
6 44 (14.10%) Full-Stack Developer
7 39 (12.50%) Senior Developer
8 33 (10.58%) Software Engineer
9 29 (9.29%) Lead
10 24 (7.69%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 20 (6.41%) .NET Software Engineer
12 17 (5.45%) Lead Developer
12 17 (5.45%) Senior .NET Developer
12 17 (5.45%) Senior C# Developer
13 15 (4.81%) React Developer
14 14 (4.49%) C# .NET Developer
15 13 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 12 (3.85%) C# Software Developer
17 10 (3.21%) Azure Developer
17 10 (3.21%) Head of Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (100.00%) .NET
2 114 (36.54%) ASP.NET
3 106 (33.97%) React
4 105 (33.65%) AngularJS
5 97 (31.09%) .NET Framework
6 81 (25.96%) HTML
7 77 (24.68%) Entity Framework
8 76 (24.36%) RESTful
9 69 (22.12%) CSS
10 59 (18.91%) ASP.NET Web API
11 58 (18.59%) ASP.NET MVC
12 47 (15.06%) Vue
13 42 (13.46%) HTML5
14 37 (11.86%) Node.js
15 36 (11.54%) Blazor
16 28 (8.97%) ASP.NET Core
17 26 (8.33%) REST
18 23 (7.37%) CSS3
19 20 (6.41%) LINQ
20 14 (4.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (4.17%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 7 (2.24%) Digital TV
7 7 (2.24%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.92%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.60%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.60%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.96%) Derivative
10 3 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.64%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.64%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.64%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.88%) Windows
2 8 (2.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (50.00%) Agile
2 138 (44.23%) Full-Stack Development
3 123 (39.42%) Microservices
4 114 (36.54%) CI/CD
5 94 (30.13%) DevOps
6 84 (26.92%) Software Engineering
7 80 (25.64%) MVC
8 61 (19.55%) Clean Code
9 51 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (16.35%) Scrum
9 51 (16.35%) TDD
10 49 (15.71%) Containerisation
11 48 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (11.54%) Mentoring
13 35 (11.22%) SDLC
14 31 (9.94%) BDD
15 29 (9.29%) Kanban
15 29 (9.29%) Unit Testing
16 27 (8.65%) AI
16 27 (8.65%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 280 (89.74%) C#
2 130 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 126 (40.38%) SQL
4 75 (24.04%) TypeScript
5 35 (11.22%) Python
6 13 (4.17%) Rust
7 8 (2.56%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.92%) Go
8 6 (1.92%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.60%) Java
10 4 (1.28%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.96%) Erlang
11 3 (0.96%) PHP
12 2 (0.64%) Bicep
12 2 (0.64%) XAML
13 1 (0.32%) C++
Qualifications
1 39 (12.50%) Degree
2 18 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.56%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.24%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.28%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.64%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.45%) QA
2 12 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.24%) WCAG
4 4 (1.28%) GDPR
5 2 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 74 (23.72%) Docker
2 7 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (13.78%) Kubernetes
2 25 (8.01%) Terraform
3 2 (0.64%) Grafana
4 1 (0.32%) Ansible
Vendors
1 111 (35.58%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.24%) Facebook
2 7 (2.24%) VMware
2 7 (2.24%) YouTube
3 4 (1.28%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.28%) Google
4 3 (0.96%) Databricks
4 3 (0.96%) Oracle
5 2 (0.64%) New Relic
5 2 (0.64%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.32%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.32%) IBM
6 1 (0.32%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.32%) IONA
6 1 (0.32%) Okta
6 1 (0.32%) SAP
6 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow